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Ralph I Horwitz1, Allison Hayes Conroy2, Mark R Cullen3
1Department of Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Penn.
Abstract:
Medicine has separated the two cultures of biological science and social science in research, even though they are intimately connected in the lives of our patients. To understand the cause, progression, and treatment of long COVID , biology and biography, the patient's lived experience, must be studied together.
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